In collaboration with Professor Tjeerdema’s environmental toxicology group at the University of California, Davis, we are synthesizing the potential biological and photolytic degradates of the herbicide Oxyfluorfen, a nitrodiphenyl ether herbicide designed to control broadleaf and grassy weeds in C…
In the second semester of the organic chemistry sequence at Chico State, the chemistry and biochemistry majors laboratory involve several discovery directed experiments. One such experiment contains the following initial steps…
In our upper division integrated laboratory sequence, we have introduced experiments that require chemistry majors to investigate the versatility and limitations of modern spectroscopic techniques…
Using commercially available Ellman’s auxiliary (_R, S, _and racemic 2-methyl-propanesulfinamide) we have developed a robust and scalable syntheses to precursors of chiral alkynyl functionalized beta amino acids…
General asymmetric synthetic methodology producing α-branched amines are of high interest as they are often part of the scaffolding of many drugs and potential drug candidates…
In our upper division integrated laboratory sequence, we have introduced experiments that require chemistry majors to investigate the versatility and limitations of modern spectroscopic techniques such as IR, 1H NMR, UV and computational analyses…